"Like a game of snake / an ouroboros on an old Nokia. Those invincible / bricks, where did they go? Other than swallowed / up deep inside, of course. Bit by micro-bit." - @carmenbarefield.bsky.social voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/d...

❄️ winter issue's up! ❄️ ft. @carmenbarefield.bsky.social, @arianathepoet.bsky.social, @jmfletcher15.bsky.social, @bilorat.bsky.social, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/w...

My poem "Portrait of my OCD as a To-Do List" was published today by Incessant Pipe Journal with art by the great Danielle Jones. I hope you have a chance to read it and/or listen to me read it to you. The link in the biiiioooo.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Trust me, there's no such thing as a rough draft or a final draft. It's just you writing forever.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

The evil that men do lives after them

You can miss a lot in American life… But the NAZIS??????

I am watching this IMMEDIATELY!

From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/978155... #poem #poetry #books #writing

If you write your enemy a sonnet you're writing foetry

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

what's in a witch's bag 🖤🗝️🗡️💄🕷️🧷

I hope Google staff can hear this image

Tom Brady: Say No to Hate Snoop: Say No to Hate Kendrick:

SAY DRAKE,

On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.

History says we forgave the executioner. —Sharif

Neo-Nazis appeared in Lincoln Heights (metro Cincinnati) Ohio and got ran out of dodge… but not before locals stole and burned their swastika flag in the street.

It's the weekend, baby

How are you so cool? This is such an amazing piece.

I'm supposed to be gathering berries in a forest but instead every day robots attempt to seduce me to get to one of my credit cards

From Lucille Clifton's book, How to Carry Water. #poem #poetry #lucilleclifton #books #writing

WRITING TIP: if you get stuck, try making the font really really big. This will remind you of being a baby, when you only knew twelve words and didn't know about death

Is this all happening because Grimes was reading Karl Marx for a photoshoot at a bus stop? And neither Musk understood what the Communist Manifesto was about so we're getting...this? Oh geez.

I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving

Happy BHM

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

Okay, I want to say it again for anyone who needs to hear it right now: Yes, calling is better for getting in touch with your reps. But right now? DO IT HOWEVER YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE. I'm really concerned that the emphasis on calling right now is stopping people from getting in touch.

Here are 25 sapphic books by Black authors out in 2025 to preorder now! lesbrary.com/black-sapphi...

Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important. —Baldwin

As long as we Black, ain't shit canceled! We gone make shit happen everytime 🖤🤎✊🏽

My chapbook finally made it on a longlist! Woot! Now if it can someday be a finalist. I'll even take fourth place. A gal can dream.

This cover alone is at the forefront of my Black History reads this year.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

"so every time we hear the poem, it feels fresh again."

Huge news. A ton of Amazon’s ongoing momentum in the book space is solely about kindle/audible. An ethical, easy-to-use alternative is great.

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

I just saw the new trailer for Sinners and I think it'll be my new favorite movie. In April, I'll see it three times in a row. I'll be camped out in the theater. #sinnersmovie #ryancoogler

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Call your reps today! Let's do what we can to light fire under their asses.